Little bats

Little bats occur at certain times in my life, sometimes I'm puzzled that people do not perceive them, either in this case or when watching the restored version of Lola Montes open air on the banks of the Seine in the Parc de Bercy ;). Anyway I hope there is at least one living in my house because on warm summer evenings at least two are flying in the garden - transcendence.

Who would have thought

that the early hours of November 6th would have me sitting outside enjoying the night and its silence...?!
I was thinking of the bonfires in England and the fact that pretty soon, on November 11th, there will be bonfires in my home region as well commemorating the day of St Martin. Something that links this region with West Flanders and Ypres, since there St Martin of Tours is also especially worshipped.
Futhermore at exactly 11:11 am on the 11th day of the 11th month the Hoppeditz will awake to mark the beginning of the fifth season, Karneval/Fastelavond ;)!

Sehnsucht und Zufall

Odd that my dearest friend would say that the German word she loved the most  and believes to be unique to this tongue is "Sehnsucht" (best translation: longing), for I've just read an obituary for Jacques Derrida, in which "longing" was a main theme, connected with debt and death. And this is where the "Zufall/ coincidence" falls in, for when I was staying at my friend's in Paris and mentioned the name Derrida, her mother told me that she had been working as a nurse in the hospital where Derrida died and did remember his death.

Living

and being unbelievably young ;)!

Oh Hermine

In a letter to Anton Walbrook/Adolf Wohlbrück Hermine Körner maintained that an actor only can enact/evoke those feelings he personally knows congratulating him on his portrayal of Hjalmar Ekdal in Ibsen's The Wild Duck - a slight side note here to the advocates of Anonymous (the movie) Anton Walbrook was never married nor had he any alleged children, so Hermine, who was well aware of this, was not commenting on some autobiographic anecdote, but surely referred to a sensible and sensitive capacity. An interesting point when one considers that Anton Walbrook wanted these letters to be published after Hermine Körner's death because of the profoundness of their thoughts - btw he did not want people to know their addressee because he believed that this would make him look showy, yet Amy Smith, the editor and longterm friend of Hermine, nevertheless revealed his name and Friedrich Luft even cared to retell the story he had heard of Anton Walbrook of his first rendezvous with Hermine after WW2. A wonderful book btw : Amy Smith, Hermine Körner, alas it is only available in German.

In Our Age of Abundance

we maybe should learn to control our consumption, so Mies van der Rohe's dictum "Less is more" regains again in meaning and importance.

A nice reminder of my inherent local patriotism, for Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was born in Aachen ;).

Immanuel

"Im Reich der Zwecke hat alles entweder einen Preis oder eine Würde. Was einen Preis hat, an dessen Stelle kann auch etwas anderes, als äquivalent, gesetzt werden, was dagegen über allen Preis erhaben ist, mithin kein Äquivalent verstattet, das hat eine Würde."/" In the realm of purposes everything has got either a price or dignity. Whatever has got a price can be replaced by some other as equivalent, whatever is beyond all price, i e it does not allow an equivalent, has got dignity." Immanuel Kant

 

Not a second of everybody's life can be replaced by no matter what!